Frank (9) describes a number of cases of perversions which he has treated during a half sleep state. He found that memories of events that had had a harmful effect on the development of childhood and puberty could be reawakened quickly and without difficulty during hypnosis. The semi-conscious problems and phantasies aroused by external events, the sexual theories of earliest childhood, could not be made conscious. Therefore the investigation in these cases was only a superficial one.

The case of a young girl who showed a number of perverse traits is described in the 'Beobachtung eines Falles von erotischer Perversion mit Neurose' (The observation of a case of erotic perversion with neurosis) (28). The patient's father was a drinker. She herself was of a very infantile disposition and addicted to